Siheyuan: Stab at Louzi at the beginning

Outside were Factory Director Liu and Director Liu, both of whom were leisurely going to the bathroom.

Dean Fang and Xu Damao were in the room.

"I heard that Director Xu helped Director Liu solve the egg problem. This is a great deed. I must toast you again."

Dean Fang drank it all in one gulp, but Xu Damao was not in the mood to drink, so he just took a small sip.

Drinking big gulps of wine is certainly hearty, but it can be very embarrassing when you have a stomachache. However, this is a hospital, and if things really don't work, you can ask a doctor to come and give you an injection on the spot.

Xu Damao was puzzled as to why this matter was suddenly brought up. The hospital did not lack this kind of thing at all.

With fewer people and more material supplies, plus some extra benefits, life is much better than at a machine repair shop, and the welfare benefits at a steel rolling mill cannot compare to those at the hospital.

"The hospital shouldn't be short of these things, right?"

"Just to thank you for the good thing you did. Nothing else. I just wanted to have one more drink."

There were only two of them in the room now. Director Liu had gone out with Chief Liu. This was obviously a deliberate 'vacuum period'.

It’s just like when your boss asked you to buy cigarettes.

See if there are any cigarettes on the table.

When they say "go buy cigarettes", they are mainly asking you to go out and stay outside for a longer period of time.

If you add 'go quickly and come back quickly', it means you are really asked to buy cigarettes.

Some dinner parties require some secret space for the parties to get to know each other more deeply, but nowadays most of them put this "process" in the second or even third party, and the dinner party becomes a solitary dinner party.

When entertaining people in institutions like hospitals, they are provided with special alcohol and special cigarettes, which they can never smoke all of.

Director Liu took the initiative to make room because when Dean Fang suggested staying for dinner, Xu Damao did not refuse, probably because he had something to say.

Because of this possibility, he took the initiative to take Director Liu away for a while. Regardless of whether there was really something going on or not, at least the time was freed up. In every way, it was a merit.

"Come on, Director Xu, come and try the fish soup. The soup is white and rich, and the meat is delicious."

After drinking a spoonful of the delicious soup, Xu Damao started talking.

"Dean Fang, I still have a lot of things I'm curious about in this hospital..."

"Director Xu, don't be so polite. There is nothing new in this hospital, and there are no secrets. With the comings and goings of people, any little movement will be known to everyone in a few minutes. If there is anything you want to know, just ask."

"I just want to ask how many experienced Chinese medicine practitioners there are in our hospital now?"

"Traditional Chinese medicine? You mean an experienced Chinese medicine doctor? We don't have a single experienced Chinese medicine doctor in our hospital."

This answer surprised Xu Damao a little.

How come such a big hospital doesn’t even have a Chinese medicine doctor?

"What about Chinese medicine?"

Dean Fang put down his wine glass, sat up straight, and looked like he was going to give a long speech: "This matter has to start from the past. Most of the backward places were barefoot doctors. Some famous doctors would choose to go to larger places. Later, Western medicine began to be promoted. These half-baked doctors, as insiders who knew half of the medical skills, learned faster than ordinary people. So the barefoot doctors in small places disappeared. In fact, they did not disappear, but they turned into Western doctors who treated diseases according to medical books."

Don’t think that the barefoot doctors in backward areas in the past were very skilled in medicine. In fact, most of them were half-baked and just made a living. So-and-so failed in everything he did, had nothing accomplished in his thirties, and opened a medicine shop when he got old...

Such examples abound.

If we must describe it, in the old society people were being cured to death. We can only say that the patient deserved to die and had lived to the end of his life.

Those who have real abilities will definitely not stay in the ignorant and backward countryside.

Some of them at least have a shop, while others are quack doctors who don’t have a shop.

The quack doctors who walk the streets are one of the five kinds of doctors. "Kapok" is a metaphor for the quack doctors who walk the streets. Regardless of their medical skills, these quack doctors usually have side jobs, such as "scouting", "cheating women", "taking advantage of prostitutes", "trafficking in people"...

This side job is similar to that of a peddler walking around the streets. Anyway, just remember one thing: those who could travel long distances in the old society were more or less tainted with the grudges of the underworld. The longest journey an ordinary person could take in his or her lifetime might not be able to get over the mountain in front of him or her.

Most of them are people who sell medicine in a shady business, such as "Dali Pills", "Plasters", "Tiger Bone Wine" and so on. It is hard to tell whether they are real or fake. Even if they are fake, it is difficult to find them. The next time they come, it will be a different person, who may cheat again.

This is called endless life. It's because these country people have no knowledge.

Especially those plasters that claim to 'cure all diseases', which you stick wherever it hurts, and some people just believe in them.

Just remember one thing: don't trust strangers easily, and you can avoid 80% of the dangers in life.

These are the things that these scammers make up, pass on from mouth to mouth, and eventually are written into serious medical books.

Some are serious illnesses that cannot be cured at all. But with good intentions and to give people a little hope, they will make up non-existent prescriptions, such as "grass on the grave", "hanging rope", "dead person's pillow", and the most outrageous one is "burying a toad wrapped in a menstrual belt at the door". The main purpose is to attract curiosity, and then it is also written in medical books.

Therefore, when it comes to the medical records in the ancients, we should take their essence and discard the dross, because they really wrote everything in the books, and the main theme was casualness.

Since Western medicine was introduced, it has developed rapidly in this land. Convenience, speed and cheapness are all its advantages. After entering the 19th century, it was officially promoted and developed.

Sixty years is equivalent to three generations. With the rise and fall of some, it is understandable that all hospitals are filled with Western medicine.

"So the doctors in our hospital..."

"Speaking of which... this hospital looks pretty big, right? There are a lot of doctors and nurses, but the essence of Western medicine is 'surgery', that is, using a knife. There are no more than a handful of people in the hospital who can use a knife, to be exact, 3.5 people. One is a returned medical student, two are assigned from Baoding, and one used to be a chef, a chef who made butcher dishes. To put it bluntly, he was a pig butcher. After training, he now dares to use a knife."

Xu Damao:......

Dean Fang went on to say, "Most of these doctors now have junior high school graduations and can read. They are trained and put on the job. They treat minor illnesses based on medical books, but are helpless against serious illnesses. The hospital can only guarantee to do its best to treat patients. Those who can be treated will be treated, but those who cannot be treated will be helpless."

Xu Damao:......

The country has been working hard, but it is really difficult to establish a complete medical system.

All things are difficult at the beginning, difficult in the middle, and even more difficult at the end.

Xu Damao has a lot to say on this point, because in the next seventy or eighty years, there will be enough hospitals and doctors, but the medical system is still not perfect. Things like cross-border, cross-regional, cross-provincial, hospital transfers, certificates, reimbursement, charges, and irrelevant examinations are still standing in the way.

Each mountain is higher than the other.

There is no way to check it, let alone change it.